Related to Myth Erika Sikon

Throughout our class discussions we have mentioned the word myth. "He insists that "the dissolution of the Myth as explained is the necessary way to the restoration of the myth as symbol""(23). "This is because, in the most basic sense, myth that is understood is no longer myth" (24). Besides speaking of "myth" and even some of the Gods in the class; a concept found both in the text of Landscapes of The Sacred and my mythology book, Classical Mythology is the word chthonic. We spent some time in class talking about it and I was amused when I saw the word in my mythology reading. We talked about the word protaining to the dead and the ground. My mythology book explains it with better context,"... the performance of "impossible" feats, an encounter with chthonic powers (often an actual trip to the Underworld), and a quest for immortality (302). Sometimes you learn things in one class that will become helpful in another and they do not even have to be related subjects!